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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 02072006 - D.1 DA THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA Date: February 7,2006 Public Comment On this date, the Chair called for public comment. The following people presented testimony: Roland Katz, Public Employees Union, Local 1, thanking the Board on behalf of the Clarke family and Local 1 for adjourning in the memory of Maureen Clarke. The following person submitted comment via electronic mail: Sally Peel, urging the Board to support the schools in offering healthier foods; (Anonymous)regarding Walmart withdrawing application for store in Hercules to avoid public hearing on February 6, 2006 in Hercules; Michael Schwedhelm, Brentwood resident, referring to item D.2 from January 24, 2006 agenda, urging the Board not to limit his choices or his ability to.raise his children as he sees fit. THIS IS A MATTER FOR RECORD PURPOSES ONLY NO ACTION WAS TAKEN .- _ C CD O tD CDCD , --5 .l �CD C CD @ l Co h o �, o o o ID ro � CD 0 .. N 41 0CD f* N S £ CSD CD N 0 � A -OCDCD CD 77 CL CD CD Sv .% 0 m G 0 CD CD G ^" N0 CL Cu0- CD i ¢ co CD � N CD ( -Z CD T� N O (P- CD N Cho 0 O �� ?� o 1p Co 3 o (n CD Co C' a co 3 W CDo CO`�© �. CDCD z3 CD r' fl S-} 3 k m 0 O O C -ACDC Ocr OCD o 0 o CD 0 m. m N. N. C1 @ Meeting Handout: Agenda Item D.1, Public Comment - February 7, 2006 Board of Supervisors meeting <cc06contramapanet. To: <comments@cob.cccounty.us> net> cc: 01/27/2006 09:11 AM Subject: Data posted to form 1 of http://www.co.contra-costa.ca.us/depart/cao/agendacomments_form.ht m Username: Sally Peel UserAddress: UserTel: UserEmail: sally_peel@hotmail.com AgendaDate•, Option: Selected AgendaItem: Remote Name: Remote User: HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; NET CLR 1.1.4322) Date: 27 Jan 2006 Time: 09:11:07 Comments: I'm writing about a news article I just read stating that the Supervisors are considering limiting fast food restaurants. in an effort to reduce childhood obesity. While I certainly support an effort to reduce obesity, I think limiting people's choices is a paternalistic way to do it. Your focus should be on supporting the schools to offer healthier foods. Furthermore, as a county, -we need to be family-friendly. As a' mom of two very young children (a 3-year-old and 1-year-old) living in Danville, I can honestly say that 'fast food places, specifically drive-through restaurants, are family friendly. I would strongly support an effort to offer healthier fast-food choices WITH drive-throughs. They are truly family friendly! A drive-through offers a great alternative to a parent with toddlers (who wants to go inside with them?) , with a baby sleeping in his carseat (don't want to make him wake up just to go inside) , a parent driving home from sports practice/work/church activity. As silly as it sounds, drive-throughs improve my quality of life, even though I probably only go to a drive-through once/week at the most. I'd like to see•Quizno's, Taco Bell, Pick-up Stix, and other healthier fast-food options welcomed in the county (and Danville in particular) and encouraged to have drive-through windows. Thanks, Sally Peel <cc0@contra.napanet. To: <comments@cob.cccounty.us> net> cc: 02/03/2006 08:24 AM Subject: Data posted to form 1 of http://www.co.contra-costa.ca.us/depart/cao/agendacomments_form.ht M Username: UserAddress: UserTel: UserEmail: AgendaDate- Option: Selected AgendaItem: Remote Name: Remote User: HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; AOL 9.0; Windows NT 5.1; SVl; NET CLR 1.1.4322) Date: 03 Feb 2006 Time: 08:24:31 Comments: On 2/02/2006 Walmart withdrew application for Store in Hercules to avoid public hearing on 2/06/2006, in Hercules. Walmart in Richmond .will be at Hilltop BIG BOX STORE Name: Michael Schwedhelm Address: Brentwood Email address: mschwedhelm(c.Dgmail..com Agenda date: 01/24/06 Agenda item: D.2 Comments:- I always cringe whenever I hear a politician say they are proposing something, "to protect the children". More times than not, it comes from someone who is trying to either get into my wallet or tell me how to live my.life. This instance is no different. I want to strongly object to any attempt by our county to limit choice and parental rights. That is exactly what Supervisor DeSaulnier is proposing. We don't need some government official telling us under what circumstances we canraise our children when they are participating in a legal activity. The health and welfare of a child is the responsibility of the parent of the child. If a government agency believes that a specific child is at risk, address the circumstances surrounding that child. Don't-try and regulate the activity of all because of the behavior of a few- or even of the many. As far as I can tell, it's still legal to eat food. Until the county bans this--activity, don't try and limit my choices or my ability to raise my children as I see fit. REQUEST TO SPEAK FORM (THREE (3) MINUTE LIMIT) Complete this form and place it in the.box near the speakers' rostrum before addressing the Board. II Name: l��" Phone: Address: City: Please note that if you choose to provide your address and phone number, this information will become a public record kept on file with the Clerk of the Board along UolkA, wit the minutes for this meeting I am speaking for myself or organization: ��U� ► t'"I+°i�`GG1 CHECK ONE: ❑ I wish to speak on Agenda Item # Date: ' � C6 My comments will be: kGeneral ❑ For ❑ Against ❑ 1 wish to speak on the subject of: ❑ I do not wish to speak but would like to leave these comments for the Board to consider: Please see reverse for instructions and important information Adjournment THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA Date: February 7, 2006 Adjournment On this date the Board of Supervisors adjourned this meeting in memory of Paul, a prominent local attorney in Contra Costa County and his wife Julie, former El Cerrito commissioner. THIS IS A MATTER FOR RECORD PURPOSES ONLY tie.+'' �J M r � � ,Yh : Maureen Deloyes Clarke -, L R .Feb 15,1932 ,tan 30,2006 Maureen passed away peacefully at.her Oakland�home rm the�preserice of her husband Married for 47�years,shemas{-a %t devoted wife and mother of two N Sha is survived,byEer husband Henry, i son,RCameron, daughter m law, Ellen„ gran dson,�Henry`Wallace;nephew;David j Merrick,-antl his wife Cage AAn`-,,-iVW traveler`, Maureen explored the world with afpass�n for art,Fculture and history,Her travels took her tofive`conti 44 nents,andover`30 countries She felt ab ,}" l ligated to st=udy cacti iculture�intensely^i and"submeretl herself �rito_it once..she. arc yed She.fined'tier home.with aitk facts;photos and stories from,her adven tures abroad �,55Socially active ah'd outspoken,Maureen loved the arC oftconvetsation�!Maintaining,i friendships andmaking neva:=ones, she enjoyed connecting with others.She spent i a.great deal=af her tame volunteering far organEzatsons such as theXS�'PYGA, Qak`.� lind' ublk Library,Demo rcatic Party a d the.League of Women Voters ��r ��Her Irfe"vvill be celebrated with famity� aridfriends this Wednesday,,Feb�8th�at _,. 1 OOpm at`the Chapel of,`the �Dona ` 4499�P�edmint�Ave Oaklani� t�ons can=be�made m hername to any of the' organ�zatioris listed above D.1 THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA Date: January 24, 2006 Matter of Record On this date, the Board called for public comment. The following people presented testimony: Roland Katz, Public Employees Union, Local 1, noted the Union does not wish to infer the Board's decision in retaining Mr. Phil Batchelor in assisting the incoming County Administrator, and second Mr. Katz said the Union was monitoring the transitioning of therapists in Chris Adams and Summit Center. The following person sent his comments via e-mail: Patsy Ronat, Lafayette resident, asking the Board to spend time on their own fiscal issues and to stop wasting time on national issues; Sandee Wiedemann, Pleasanton resident, opposing time spent by County on issues outside County business; Robert Olson, urging the Board not to spend time on issues not within their jurisdiction; Patti O'Neill, on an incident in Animal Services Department. x THIS IS A MATTER FOR RECORD PURPOSES ONLY NO ACTION WAS TAKEN twwr`` W Y O O CD O ,j O m .. �, O N= R5 �dl V Q Y C oQ IE CL- co 0- co � o 01 o a tr) ca E~-- ico m tQ6 o 3�co � s' a .0 m UA ► . v o_co G3 G U) = N N U- 3 -71 Y p C N O %- G d CD 2 N 3 3 o January 24, 2006 Board of Supervisors Meeting Handout: ' Agenda Item D.1, Public Comment e-mail received requesting the Board resist addressing National Policies J - <cc0fcontra.napanet. To: <comments@cob.cccounty.us> net> cc: Subject: Data posted to form 1 of 01/17/2006 01:17 PM hfp://www.co.contra-costa.ca.us/depart/cao/agendacomments_form.ht m Username: Patsy Ronat UserAddress: 1044 Via Roble, Lafayette 94549, UserTel: 925-283-3856 UserEmail: patsyronat@hotmail.com AgendaDate: 1/17/06 Option: Selected AgendaItem: D.5 Remote Name: 71.141.27.109 Remote User: HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; NET CLR 1.1.4322) Date: 17 Jan 2006 Time: 13:17:20 Comments: Until this board figures how to run its own county with some demonstration of fiscal responsibility, it cannot possibly spare the time to address NATIONAL POLICY! Get a grip on reality, folks! January 24, 2006 Board of Supervisors Meeting Handout: ' Agenda Item D.1, Public Comment e-mail received requesting the Board resist addressing National Policies <=Oftontra.napanet. To: <comments@cob.cccounty.us> net> cc: 01/17/2006 11:50 AM Subject: Data posted to form 1 of http://www.co.contra-costa.ca.us/depart/cao/agendacomments form.ht M Username: Sandee Wiedemann UserAddress: 6500 Highland Road, Pleasanton (CC Co. ) UserTel: 925-443-6503 UserEmail: xosandee@earthlink.net AgendaDate: 01/17/06 Option: Selected AgendaItem: D.5 Remote Name: 4.243.179.166 Remote User: HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/312.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/312.5 Date: 17 Jan 2006 Time: 11:50:22 Comments: Opposed to any time spent on issues outside of County business. I support our President's judgement and understanding of all of the ramifications of the war in Iraq. Our. County Supervisors should not even be discussing national issues! Please do not waste our County's time and money. Thanks for listening. January 24, 2006 Board of Supervisors Meeting Handout: Agenda Item D.1, Public Comment e-mail received requesting the Board resist addressing National Policies Robert Olson To: comments@ cob.cccounty.us x <rcocfp@netscape.net cc: '. > Subject: priorities 01/18/2006 12:32 PM Please stopwasting time on issues not within your jurisdiction, like where the National Guard is sent. Such political posturing sreflects neither the priorities nor the constituency of CCC.. We are not LA. January 24, 2006 Board of Supervisors Meeting Handout: Agenda Item D.1, Public Comment e-mail received regarding the potential mishandling of a situation by Animal Services -----Forwarded by Julie Enea/CAO/CCC on 01/20/2006 09:25 AM---� "Patti O'Neill" To: <jenea@cao.cccounty.us> . <PONeill@SKOCPA.co cc: <asdweb@asd.co.contra-costa.ca.us> m> Subject: 01/19/2006 07:54 PM Thank you for reading my email. I would like my comments passed on to the County Board of Supervisors. I am writing about a recent story something that happened in your Animal Services Department. Perhaps, you don't remember the case of Bella and the Santa Clara Humane Society. A couple of years ago, the Santa Clara Humane Society adopted out a dog by the name Bella. The owners of Bella had been looking for her at the shelter and had not seen her. Bella was adopted to another family. Public outcry was enormous. The Humane Society claimed they couldn't do anything about it. The public did do something about it. They kept in the news. They made the Humane Society look bad. Many people refused to contribute to the Humane Society after this. The executive director looked foolish. The adopting family looked like cruel, horrible, noncaring people. The news media may make a field day out of this fiasco. I am asking ABC7 to continue to pursue this by publicizing this misdeed until this wrong is made right. You might wonder why I care... I have pets. They are my best friends. And, when you lose your best friend, you lose everything. It hurts. This case doesn't have to turn out that way. Libby didn't have to lose her best friend. She didn't have to be hurt. The Animal Services Department told Libby she should come get her dog. Libby communicated with the Animal Services Department when she could not make it. In any case, she got there before the five day waiting period was over, which was the policy stated on the website. However, Animal Services just said that the website information was wrong. It seems that the Animal Services Department is more afraid of the new owner than the original owner. It makes me wonder if this is the case because Libby is a woman of color. I wonder if there is some discrimination in this situation. Lt. Nancy Anderson did a poor job of handling the interview on television. She really looked like a fool answering the questions. Animal Services was wrong in their handling of this situation. And, now, it needs to be fixed. January 24, 2006 Board of Supervisors Meeting Handout: Agenda Item D.1, Public Comment e-mail received requesting the Board resist addressing National Policies <cc0fcontra.napanet. To: <comments@cob.cccounty.us> net> cc: Subject: Data posted to form 1 of 01/17/2006 01:17 PM hftp://www.co.contra-costa.ca.us/depart/caolagendacomments_form.ht m Username: Patsy Ronat UserAddress: 1044 Via Roble, Lafayette 94549, UserTel: 925-283-3856 UserEmail: patsyronat@hotmail.com AgendaDate: 1/17/06 Option: Selected AgendaItem: D.5 ! ' Remote Name: 71.141.27.109 Remote User: HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/4. 0 (compatible; MSIE 6. 0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; NET CLR 1.1.4322) Date: 17 Jan 2006 Time: 13:17:20 Comments: Until this board figures how to run its own county with some demonstration of fiscal responsibility, it. cannot possibly spare the time to address NATIONAL POLICY! Get a grip on reality, folks! t ' January 24, 2006 Board of Supervisors Meeting Handout: Agenda Item 13.1, Public Comment e-mail received requesting the Board resist addressing National Policies <cc0@contra.napanet. To:_<comments@cob.cccounry.us> net> cc: Subject: Data posted to form 1 of 01/17/2006 11:50 AM hftp://www.co.contra-costa.ca.us/depart/cao/agendacomments_form.ht m Username: Sandee Wiedemann UserAddress: 6500 Highland Road, - Pleasanton (CC Co. ) UserTel: 925-443-6503 UserEmail: xosandee@earthlink.net AgendaDate: 01/17/06 Option: Selected AgendaItem: D.5 Remote Name: 4.243.179.166 Remote User: HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/312.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/312.5 Date: 17 Jan 2006 Time: 11:50:22 Comments: Opposed to any time spent on issues outside of County business. I support our President's judgement and understanding of all of the ramifications of the war in Iraq. Our County Supervisors should not even be discussing national issues! Please do not waste our County's time and money. Thanks for listening. January 24, 2006 Board of Supervisors Meeting Handout: Agenda Item D.1, Public Comment e-mail received requesting the Board resist addressing National Policies Robert Olson To: comments @cob.cccounty.us <rcocfp@netscape.net cc: > Subject: priorities 01/18/20b6 12:32 PM Please stop wasting time on issues not within your jurisdiction, like where the National Guard is sent. Such political posturing sreflects neither the priorities nor the constituency of CCC. We are not LA. January 24, 2006 Board of Supervisors Meeting Handout: Agenda Item D.1, Public Comment e-mail received regarding the potential mishandling of a situation by Animal Services ----- Forwarded by Julie Enea/CAO/CCC on 01/20/2006 09:25 AM---- "Patti O'Neill" To: <jenea@cao.cccounty.us> <PONeill@SKOCPA.co cc: <asdweb@asd.co.contra-costa.ca.us> m> Subject: 01/19/2006 07:54 PM Thank you for reading my email. I would like my comments passed on to the County Board of Supervisors. I am writing about a recent story something that happened in your Animal Services Department. Perhaps, you don't remember the case of Bella and the Santa Clara Humane Society. A couple of years ago, the Santa Clara Humane Society adopted out a dog by the name Bella. The owners of Bella had been looking for her at the shelter and had not seen her. Bella was adopted to another family. Public outcry was enormous. The Humane Society claimed they couldn't do anything about it. The public did do something about it. They kept in the news. They made the Humane Society look bad. Many people refused to contribute to the Humane Society after this. The executive director looked foolish. The adopting family looked like cruel, horrible, noncaring people. The news media may make a field day out of this fiasco. I am asking ABC7 to continue to pursue this by publicizing this misdeed until this wrong is made right. You might wonder why I care... I have pets. They are my best friends. And, when you lose your best friend, you lose everything. It hurts. This case doesn't have to turn out that way. Libby didn't have to lose her best friend. She didn't have to be hurt. The Animal Services Department told Libby she should come get her dog. Libby communicated with the Animal Services Department when she could not make it. In any case, she got there before the five day waiting period was over,which was the policy stated on the website. However, Animal Services just said that the website information was wrong. It seems that the Animal Services Department is more afraid of the new owner than the original owner. It makes me wonder if this is the case because Libby is a woman of color. I wonder if there is some discrimination in this situation. Lt. Nancy Anderson did a poor job of handling the interview on television. She really looked like a fool answering the questions. Animal Services was wrong in their handling of this situation. And, now, it needs to be fixed.